Main description:

This third edition of Visual Fields: Examination and Interpretation contains revisions and updates of earlier material as well as a discussion of newer techniques for assessing visual field disorders. The book begins with a short history of the field of perimetry and goes on to present basic clinical aspects of examination and diagnosis of visual field defects in the optic nerve, optic disc, chorioretina, optic chiasm, optic tract, lateral geniculate field bodies,
and the calcarine complex. Additional aspects of visual field examination are explored including those of monocular, binocular, and junctional field defects, congruity vs. incongruity, macular sparing vs. macular splitting, density, wedge-shaped homonymous field loss, and monocular temporal crescent.
Various new techniques of automated perimetry are also considered including SITA, FASTPAC, and SWAP. In all, this volume provides a very useful overview of the techniques, both old and new, of visual field examination in a multiplicity of eye disorders and as such will be of interest to all ophthalmologists, neuro-opthalmologists, retina specialists, and optomestrist.

Contents:

Preface.
History of Perimetry.
Overview of Perimetry.
Anatomic Basis and Differential Diagnosis of Field Defects.
Essentials of Automated Perimetry.
Automated Perimetry in Glaucoma.
Inherited or Congenital Optic Nerve Diseases.
Acquired Optic Nerve Diseases.
Visual Field Defects in Chorioretinal Disorders.
Optic Chiasm Field Defects.
Optic Tract and Lateral Geniculate Body Field Defects.
Retrogeniculate Visual Field Defects.
Functional Visual Loss.
Subject Index